The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-14
MISS JENNINGS IS SHOT.
A BUTTON SAVES A YOUNG WOMAN
FROM BEING A MURDERESS.

Jennings Three Times, Misses Her
Fourth Shot, and Resumes Her
Fancy Work.
From the EeuU York sun dug IL.
Miss Dolores Dartmoore, reputed to be
the daughter of q wealthy planter living
near st. Augustine Fla, who is spending
the summer on Staten island, shot Miss
Mary Jennings, young woman who had
formerly boarded at the same house, three
times yesterday afternoon, and missed kill
ing her only by accident.
The summer home Of Miss Dartmoore is
the old Winchester Mansion at the corner
of DeKay and Bard avenues, West New
Brighton. George William Curtis lives a
block below, and Banker Louis Hoyt's
country estate is right across the street
Mrs Anna McKernan, who is not living
with her husband, keeps the boarding house,
but Miss Dartmoore is at present the sole
boartler Until about the middle of June
Miss Mary Jennings also boarded with Mrs.
Mckernan, but at that time went to Yonk-
ers, leaving behind her one trunk and a
debt Mrs. McKernan says of So.
According to Mrs McKernan, Miss Jen-
nings reached the house yesterday short
time before o'clock, and walked up the
winding path through the tree-covered
lawn to the front pOrtlco, where she found
Mrs. McKernan sitting in an easy chair.
Miss Jennings said that she had come to see
about her trunk
Your trunk is all right and just as you
left it, said Mrs. McKernan, but you are
not going to take it until you pay me the
s. you owe me"
Miss Jennings replied with some warmth
Nrl1, q.
about the debt atterward A vigorous dis
cussion followed, during which both women
lost their tempers and called each other
very harsh names Finally, according to
Miss Kitty McKernan, the pretty 16-year
old daughter of Mrs. McKernan, Miss Jen-
nings got so angry that she first fourished
her umbrella around Mrs. McKelnan's
head, and then, taking a pair of sharp
pointed scissors from her pocket, said she
would stick them into Mrs. McKernan unless
allowed to go to her trunk. Mrs McKer
nan is an invalid Miss Dartmoore and
Miss Kitty had both been attracted to the
portico by the loud scolding. When this
violent demonstration was made they called
domestic, Julia Rowland, and, with her
assistance, carried Mrs. McKernan to her
room and locked the door on her. Miss Jen.
nings, they say, was now almost frantic
with rage
Miss DartmooTe then walked into the hall
where tho trunk stood, and found Miss Jen-
nings bending over it, taking out a pair of
shoes. Miss Jennings locked the trunk,
stood up, and began to tell Miss Dartmoore
what bad lot of people the house CON
tanned. Miss Dartmoore ordered her to
leave the house at once. Miss Jennings
replied disdainfully. Miss Dartmoore said,
IF you don't go I'll throw you out" Miss
Dartmoore's weight is 10 pounds, and Miss
Jennings is much larger, but, according to
the Mckernans, that wicked look in Miss
Dartmooreseyes was worth forty pounds of
muscle, and Miss Jennings stepped out of
the hall to the portico. Then Miss
Dartmoore went iuto the parlor on
the right of the hall and stood
| by a front window TO see if Miss
| Jennings left the yard Miss Jennings
stopped on the portico, and looking around
saw Miss Dartmoore. The window is di-
vided vertically, and one-half was swung
open and the other closed. just what it was
that animated Miss Jennings at that moment
the MckernaHs win not tell, but something
Miss Dartnoore said, it is supposed by the
| police, so exasperated her that, raising her
| umbrella, she struck a violent blow with it
| through the window The umbrella missed
| the opening and crashed through a big
| thirty-inch glass. At the same time she
| called Miss Dartmoore vile name.
| Miss Dartmoore, reaching to a pocket
| located somewhere in her skirts pulled out
a small nickel-plated revolver of 22-calibre,
raised it deliberately, and fired square at
| Miss Jennings's head The bullet pierced
her left cheek.
Miss Jennings whirled around as if to fly,
but Miss Dartmoores blood was up, and
she blazed away again, the bullet striking
Miss Jennings in the fleshy part of the right
forearm Miss Jennings, too much fright
ened to know what to do, stood still, facing
her assailant, and screamed.
Miss Dartmoore this time aimed to kill.
The bullet sped straight for her victims
heart, but a huge button on her left breast
interviewed The button was shattered, but
the bullet was turned.
By this time, apparently, Miss Dartmoore
had become trifle nervous, for when she
fired again she entirely missed the mark
Miss Jennings had meantime gained her
wits enough to fly, and, as she ran off the
portico Miss Dartmoore ceased firing.
The row had called Miss Dartmoore from
her sewing in the sitting room.
After the shooting she coolly walked back,
sat down in her easy chair, pickedup a cloth
and wiped the smoke off of the revolver,
drew the empty shells, put loaded ones in
their places, and then, after slowing the re
volver in the secret receSSeS of her skirt,
picked up her fancy work and went on with
it, remarking that she did not think Miss
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right away.
Meanwhile with the blood streaming down
from the bullet hole in her cheek and drip
ping from the finger ends of her right hand,
Miss Jennings walked one block to st. Aus
tins School where she knew there was q
telephone. AS well as she could with bull
let in the upper part of her mouth she asked
the janitor that the police and surgeon be
telephoned for. Inspector Cobb and Police
mo ol,S,ff I,1Itr- oil tn ha witt
carriage, and placing Miss Jennings in it
sent her to the West New Brighton police
station, where Dr. William c. Walser at
tended her. The two officers then went up
TO the Winchester mansion.
Miss Dartlaoore greeted the officers COM
posedly, and the Inspector, hat i'll hand,
asked her where the woman was who had
shot Miss Jennings With the air of one
somewhat injured and surprised by the
question, Miss Dartmoore replied:
why, | am the one"
The Inspector told her he would have to
arrest her. She got into a carriage as
calmly as though going out for drive. At
the station she looked without apparent in
terest at Miss Jennings She was taken be-
fore Justice of the Peace Powers, to whom
she said she would make no statement until
she secured counsel. Tho Justice held her
on a charge of felonious assault and assault
with intent to kill, fixing bail at 81 900.
Miss Dartmoore knew no one to whom
she could apply 10 serve as bondsman, and
was locked w in cell A, the best one in the